Higgs Boson Might Yield Origins of Universe But Questions Remain. If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? : PhilosophyofScience. THE GREATEST INVENTION IS THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. Roger Highfield argues that the modern scientific method, an unending dialogue between theory and experiment, is the mother of all invention ...
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January/February 2012 All great inventions rest on understanding how things work. And the greatest of all is the über-invention that has provided the insights on which other inventions depend: the modern scientific method, the realisation that we cannot grasp the way the world works by rational thought alone. To gain meaningful insights into the scheme of things, logic has to be accompanied by asking probing questions of nature. To advance understanding, we need to devise rational conjectures and probe them to destruction through controlled tests, precise observations and clever analysis. What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics.